Stop throwing the term "overrated" at every game you don't like

If you go into a game expecting it to be "just like" or "better than" something else right off the bat, you're going to have a negative experience with it. Experience it for what it is, play the whole thing through and then nitpick how it could be better. If another similar game was a better experience for you, that's also fine. But try to step aside from a games immediate shortcomings and appreciate it for its own style, gameplay, and content. A game isn't "overrated" because it isn't your favorite game ever. I hate the mentality that "only games I like can get a good score!!!" Yes, more than one game can be highly rated. I feel like so many people just want to dislike popular games and call every major title overrated. 90% of times I see that term used on these forums, what someone really means is that they have been playing the game for three hours and personally didn't like the game as much as other people did. That is not what overrated means. And yes, I realize the term itself is subjective, but every game you dislike is not overrated. And a game not being your favorite game ever does not make it overrated. /rant

You are overrated.

Salty.

Or what?

When players/critics/both go on talking about a game like it's the next best thing since sliced bread and it turns that that's not even close to the truth, a person has every right to call that game overrated. For example, look at GTA 4. It is officially one of the highest rated games of all time. Does it deserve to have that kind of a distinction? Absolutely not. Thus, is it overrated? Oh yes it is.

Yes, overrated and underrated are terms used way the **** too often. And yes, these terms are usually just lazy knocks from people who can't seem to properly articulate their beef with a game.

But it's not as if the terms aren't applicable at times. Plenty of mediocre games go balls out on marketing, generating a massive hype machine, fooling gamers into singing high praises for games that just aren't all that. Sometimes an average ass game is just riding on brand name alone. On the flip side, plenty of straight up gems fly under the radar.

Overrated is a relative idea, like good or bad. Its all opinion based...

This thread is overrated.

K

This thread is overrated.

I'll have you know I didn't see your post until now, great minds.

What ps4 exclusive is overrated? You're fanboying without any rime or reason.

When did I say a PS4 exclusive is overrated?

Am I just misunderstanding what you're getting at, or did you just misread GTA4 as PS4?

Did you edit since I'm almost 99% sure it said: "When ps4 users/etc etc go on talking about their games like it's the next best thing since sliced bread and it turns that that's not even close to the truth"

@putaspongeon:

I think System Wars is getting to ya bro, it happens lol.

Announcing a public order to chaotic anti-everything users is absolutely going to work.

Actually when a user edits his post it shows edited on top of the post. And no Khoofia didn't edit his post.

Lol I never edited anything :P

I don't know why people don't believe me, I've said it many times in several threads here- I am a Sony fan, if not a fanboy, I lean towards them more than Nintendo and Microsoft. >.<

Trust me, if someone were to launch an attack on the PS4 the way you think I did, I would be the first one to jump to Sony's defence :P

Lol I thought that was it too. Apparently not though.

I find your post overrated.

looks like someone had an itchy fanboy trigger finger

I find the term "boring" even more annoying and over used here. I think it's time to find a new hobby if you find every game you play to be boring.

I don't mind the term, as long as people aren't just like "such-n-such game is overrated, THE END"... weak argument, but if they're like "it's overrated because..." and they make an argument against it then that's just criticism.

The ability to not just have an opinion but to back it up with insight and make a sound and rational argument is all people ask. You can even be opinionated, just be direct about it, roundabout proxy excuses are just bullshit and will be called out.

Finding the term ''overrated'' overrated is overrated.

It's an easy term to use, so I'll doubt we'll see it dismissed any time soon.

My bad, anyway I got pissy about it since I thought someonewas trying to throw they fanboyism into an unrelated thread, I game on pc and playstation (hopefully nx soon if it's powerful enough to support 3rd party and surpass ps4 by a good chunk) and I call people out on insulting ps4 with how strong the lineup is coming up and 2015 having games like bloodborne, disgaea 5, and until dawn, that said, I'm generally objective with fanboyism, I have biases as far as finding games like halo to be as boring as shit and hating online games that aren't mmos (for honor might change that), but I argue for sony because of it's merit, but the response to you was purely out of "what the ****, don't bring up fanboyism here"

Dude probably watched a recently released TB video, then goes to make this thread.

I never said that overrated isn't sometimes a very valid word to use. Some games ARE overrated. I'm just pointing out that I think it's a cheap way of describing what you actually dislike about a game. I also find that most people call something overrated because a game wasn't like another game they liked more. For example, someone stating that Skyrim was better than The Witcher 3, thus TW3 is overrated (thread that currently exists). Which is just a totally ridiculous way of saying, hey I thought Skyrim was a better game. That doesn't make TW3 overrated BECAUSE you didn't like it as much as another game. That's all I'm saying, because I see this type of argument constantly: "this is overrated; that is overrated; this game is so overrated". Stfu overrated does not equal dislike. It means you don't think it deserves the hype/popularity and rating it has. Which is fine, but judge it as a standalone thing and give valid reasons that don't involve comparing it to something you liked more as your sole argument point. Comparing every game to something else and if it doesn't meet those expectations, its overrated is lame AF

I hate to break it to you, but I'm sure "overrated" will be around for a long time.

@Sweetbackhair: Again, I realize this. It's a word. I'm not trying to get it abolished lol. My point is that if you're going to use it make it a real argument *see above*

I just say I think I a game sucks. I think COD sucks, I think Halo sucks, I think Assissin's Creed sucks lately. And have no idea why people love these shitty games so much. I don't call them overrated though. Just not my thing.

Fallout and GTA are games that seem overrated though while not flat out sucking though. I can see the appeal, but not to the level they are successful.

Yes, my Führer!!!!!

I think the terms "overrated" and "underrated" for that matter are BS too. It's basically saying, "people rated this thing too highly/lowly", which is just another way of saying "people shouldn't like/dislike this thing as much as they do" or "people are wrong for liking/disliking this thing" and generally people just say this because they themselves don't like or dislike the thing as much as others. It comes across as egotistical, whiny nonsense.

It's one thing to judge a game, that's perfectly fine, it starts getting dickish when you judge people for liking/disliking things you dislike/like. I wasn't a fan of FF Tactics, I'm not going to say people are wrong for loving the game as much as they do or say that they're "rating the game too highly." On the flipside, I liked Skyward Sword, but I'm not going to say people are wrong for disliking the game or for rating the game lowly. I might disagree, sure, but I'm also not going to act like my personal ratings of things are how they should be objectively rated, or act like what I think is objective truth.

But overrated is the best way to describe almost every console blockbuster that comes out these days.

Like those new Tomb Raider games? That's like the definition of overrated.

@DJ-Lafleur: My point exactly. Well said. I also feel like so many people think anything that is popular must be called overrated because god forbid you acknowledge that a popular game might be popular because it's... good, even if you didn't enjoy it for whatever reason. And although the word is an opinionated one anyway and something can technically be considered over/under rated to anyone (no right or wrong answer), I think in the sense of fairly using the term, very few of the arguments I see are a fair explanation of why something is indeed overrated. In other words, did a game really deserve to not be say overall rated a 9/10? Is it really not as anywhere near as good as people claim it is? Or did you just personally not like it?

The problem is the term "Overrated" (and its counterpart, Mr "Underrated") is used too often that it loses its original meaning by forum users. As it is, "Overrated" are popularly used on, as the OP described, simply because the gamer don't like the game, even when it actually DESERVES the praises. Heck, in forums overrated quite literally mean "I don't like this game so this game actually sucks except you all don't know that other than me cause I'm awesome and really special".

I agree. "Overrated" is thrown around way too often ("underrated" too), in that I agree with you and TC. It almost loses its meaning because of that, so much so that when you actually use the word people don't seem to care.

plus gamers have shit taste, especially the fuckers on this forum, some of us are just providing gospel.

i don't see anything wrong with that ... don't take it seriously.

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Well, you're harsh but right.

MGSV: Phantom Pain is overrated. There is no getting around that I'm afraid. The game sucks, deal with it.

too bad

Why can't I? It's my opinion, it's what I think.

I´m so scared about you ....

I so agree with this.

100 people like something. 1 person doesn't. That person can't really use the term overrated just because they don't like it especially if it's something that is unquantifiable. It's a bit of a useless word when it comes to art really. A sportsman can be overrated if people think he gets credit for doing more than he does. But a game? If people like it, that's just their opinion. It's not wrong.

Why are people's opinion of the amount of work a sportsman does different from that of a game? If people think the sports person does a lot of work, isnt that just their opinion too?

@aigis: No. Because you can measure how much work he does. How much territorial gains, passes, whatever. It is something quantifiable. Your pleasure of a game relies on taste. Aspects of it can be overrated but the game overall? If people like it, they like it.

@DocSanchez: All the stats can be measured, but what you would consider a good player is relative to what you believe good stats are and which aspect of the stats you value more.

Like just about any critical term that's thrown around here, it's over and misused. It is quite simple to dislike a game and not call it overrated. You're not going to like everything that's highly praised, even if you want to. But there's a fine line between not getting into a game and not seeing what other people see that make it enjoyable for them. For example, I don't care for Gears of War, but I can see why someone would want to sink their teeth into the series.

The last game that I've played that I would sincerely call overrated would be Fallout 3, because it's a fundamentally poor title with zero redeeming qualities to it that somehow gets praised for being "deep" and "well-written"; two things it most certainly is not.

Also, as Champ said, gamers I know around here and in real life have some fucking awful taste, to where any praise or criticism they give to any game is taken with an Everest of salt.

That's the mentality of gamers today. They think they are the end all/be all of games and if they don't like it for whatever reason then the game is garbage, it's overrated, it's a flop blah blah blah lol. Just cause they don't like a game doesn't mean it's a overall bad game, it's just not your taste.